The life of the line: its train services, locomotives and personalities. OL126 B.O'Sullivan, P.Medium, 150 pages, photo illustrations. Soft back.

Price:
£10.95

Fermanagh's Railways.
Ref: IR2507

Friel & Johnston.Very large, 176 pages, pictorial, soft back. **Second edition. The book covers all three railway companies operating in the county as well as the bus services. The first edition came out in 1998; this edition has many previously unpublished photographs and increased coverage of the run-up to closure, the last day and the aftermath.

Price:
£18.00

Forty Shades Of Steam.
Ref: IR2208

The story of the RPSI.Cassells & Friel.Large, 160 pages, photo illustrations, mostly colour, map. Soft back. **The Railway Preservation Society Of Ireland was founded in 1964 and continues to run terrific steam trips. An interesting read, with some evocative photos. Out of print - last copy.

Price:
£14.99

From Connemara To Cock O' The North.
Ref: IR2949

Railway journeys in Ireland and Scotland, 1920-1950.Liddle.Large, 144 pages, photo illustrations, maps, soft back. **The railway scene in the second quarter of the 20th century: Howth, Bray, Mullingar in early GSR days; Edinburgh and lines therefrom in the early 1930s; GNR(I) in the mid 1930s; Irish railways in general during the war; finally Belfast and lines therefrom in the late 1940s. Out of print - last copy.

Boocock.Very large, 128 pages, photo illlustrations, some period colour, glazed boards. **The first of a series planned to cover all the main railways in the British Isles in the period from 1949 to the present. In fact this volume includes classes dating back to the 1870s. A class-by-class survey giving brief histories and class statistics. The volume covers the whole of Ireland. Out of print, last copy.

Shepherd.Very large, 160 pages, photo illlustrations, map, track diagram, stock lists and other tabulated statistical information, glazed boards. **Complex history of the fourth largest Irish railway company of its day, railway politics, line descriptions, locomotive history, economic and social influence. Out of print - LAST COPY.

Price:
£19.99

Wee Donegal Revisited.
Ref: IR0820

More views of the County Donegal railways in colour.Robotham & Curran.Very large, 108 page colour album. Includes track diagrams and map. Glazed boards.

Price:
£19.99

West Clare Railway.
Ref: IR0022

Taylor, P.Very large, 224 pages, illustrated, with photos, tables, line drawing and map. Hard back. **A full history of a 3ft gauge railway network in County Clare.

An Irish railway pictorial.Kennedy, M.Very large, 96 pages, album. Soft back. **The LMS inherited from the MR the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway and the Donegal Railways; from the LNWR the Dundalk, Newry & Greenore Railway and various shipping interests. The book also covers road services, air services, the effects of the war and much else.

Price:
£12.99

Locomotives Of The GSR.
Ref: IR2580

Clements & McMahonVery large, 384 pages, map, photos, charts, tables, hard back. **All the locomotives inherited by the Great Southern in 1924 and those subsequently built or acquired to 1944, broad and narrow gauge, described class by class. Pre-1924 history of inherited engines is included and details of disposal by CIE. Chapters deal with other motive power and tenders.

Price:
£35.00

Locomotives Of The LMS NCC.
Ref: IR2590

And its predecessors.Scott.Very large, 190 pages, map, photos, locomotive drawings, tables, hard back. **History of NCC locomotives from the first engines built for the Belfast and Ballymena Railway in 1847 - every NCC locomotive built between then and the end of steam in 1970 is described, together with information on diesel locomtives and railcars.